Career
He is a former student of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros and Gerald Shapiro. Didkovsky formed Doctor Nerve in 1984. He received a Masters in Computer Music from New York University in 1987 and went on to develop a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language).
JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance.
JMSL includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editors JMSL can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn.
He has presented papers on his work at several conferences. Ensemble activities include founding the blackened grindcore band Vomit Fist in 2013.
His debut solo album was released in 1997 and featured contributions from Frith.
His second album, Body Parts, came out of a collaboration with Guigou Chenevier. Didkovsky has composed for or performed on a number of CDs including: 1997 Every Screaming Ear, Label: Cuneiform (January 21, 1997) Ayaya Moses, with the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet Binky Boy 1999, Upbeat, with the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet 2000, Ereia, with Doctor Nerve and the Sirius String Quartet 2003, Bone - uses wrist grab, with Hugh Hopper and John Roulat Didkovsky"s music has also been arranged by the experimental music group Electric Kompany. He is a co-owner of the "$100 Guitar", a guitar which was circulated amongst many musicians (including Alex Skolnick, Fred Frith, and Nels Cline) for the recording of a concept album about the guitar.